More on Longhorn

An anonymous reader writes "Everything I have read concering MS's future plans: Palladium, Client/Server tie in, Office 11 breaking backward compatability, 3 year licensing plans, product activation - all leave me with a foreboding sense of the potential synergy for furthering Microsoft's goals of complete domination. Now this article tells about Longhorn's new filesystem being based on the the future Yukon server. And surprise it will only work with new hardware, which they want to be Palladium enabled. And all pitched to you under the rubric of Security & Efficency. For years MS has been accused of only wanting people to run MS Software. Now according to the article, 'Microsoft doesn't think computer users should have to use one program to read and write a word-processing file, another to use a spreadsheet, and a third to correspond via e-mail. Rather, the company thinks, a single program should handle it all.' One program to rule them all, one program to bind them, indeed."

Comments

Then it becomes more like a Mac

[WildBeast]

Tying hardware to software, isn't that what Apple already does? Isn't that why there marketshare keeps decreasing?

Slashdot Posting Contradicting Articles

[Nintendork]

This one says that Longhorn was cancelled. It also thought that .NET Server and Longhorn were the same thing.

Although I now use the AP Wire as my homepage instead of /., I often wonder why I even read Slashdot on a daily basis even though half the postings are misleading, incorrect, or absurd. The editors need to start doing some actual editing or the only remaining readers will be the geek equivelant of tabloid readers.

-Lucas

Achtung!

[Anonymous Coward]

ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer!
(one People, one Reich, one Fuhrer!)

Re:A new hope?

[kraksmoka]

it is ironic that m$ is really trying to make their own BeOS out of windoze, with a bunch of consumer penalties and taxes added.

fact is, with all the reimplementations of BeOS they have lost something crucial to long term adoption (not like they really had it anyway), some measure of consistency.

actually, reminds me of the crumbling of Hotline and it's formerly high level of consistency. Now there are a whole mess of BeOSs out there. If they were any good, don't u think someone would use them???

i hope m$ wastes a fuckin lot of time on all this technology that nobody's askin for, to run on hardware nobody wants to buy.

if we're lucky this is the new OS/2 Warp.